quittance

If you bring a quittance from your captain then we shall deal."

He obtained the king's writ for quittance of the remainder.

To any man who would leave, I will give a signed note of quittance, and never think less of his courage."

--has this dear and sacred hand I hold, brought me my quittance of earth?

"He had a charter of quittance from King John, exempting him from any such accounting.

I wouldn't put it past you to speed my quittance if you thought it might serve your purposes."

I was very tired but there were still things to be done before I could in all fairness claim my quittance from Smedley.

I marvel why I answer'd not again; But that's all one: omittance is no quittance.

"We shall take him when he brings quittance," Lord-One Krip returned.

The Final Quittance (French translation)

We both like quittance of the suit and tie, freedom from duty and detail and to breathe deeply the insouciant air of summer.

Yet it was his sense of fairness that made him write, as a sort of quittance: "You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances.

Indeed, he only agreed to do this when Clementina signed a "quittance" renouncing, on behalf of herself and her descendants, any further claim on the estate.

He then folded the quittance, and put it under his cap, adding,---"Peril of thy heard, Jew, see that this be full and ample!"

However, the most important document on the preparations is the 'quittance' of 2 July 1338 which proved the fleet used gunpowder, the origin of French naval artillery.

It was recorded in the 12th century when the de Clares, lords of Tidenham, granted quittance of the passage to the monks of Tintern.

Ay, and ratalorum too, and a gentleman born, master parson; who writes himself Armigero in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, Armigero.

We therefore have great cause of thankfulness, And shall forget the office of our hand Sooner than quittance of desert and merit According to the weight and worthiness.

Besides that, Levin had business in Kashin, of the utmost importance for his sister, who lived abroad, to do with settling the matter with the trusteeship and obtaining a quittance.

So long as he worked or waited, Madeline remained in New York, but when in February death gave him his quittance, she took her freedom too, with wide intentions and many coupons.

Not that she would not have liked to hold that shining red stone in her hand and put it on her finger; but not as quittance for her share in Harry Talvace.

M. Collot had given one of these bills for 300,000 livres to Bonaparte in quittance of a debt, but the latter had allowed the bill to run out without troubling himself about it.

He pours it out: Plutus, the god of gold, Is but his steward; no meed but he repays Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him But breeds the giver a return exceeding All use of quittance.

(Before his father's death, Merrill and his two siblings renounced any further inheritance from their father's estate in exchange for $100 "as full quittance"; as a result, much of Charles Merrill's estate was donated to charity, including "The Orchard.")

"Or, if so please you," said Isaac, willing to curry favour with the outlaws, "I can send to York for the six hundred crowns, out of certain monies in my hands, if so be that the most reverend Prior present will grant me a quittance."